Boutique Ski Brands

[XXX-er]

I got BD verdicts made by atomic and the next year BD Verdicts made in China construction wise they were both ok, I think they made too many skis to be called " Boutique " we had a guy in town making like one pair a day and i would call that Boutique

i'm kind of meh on the whole Boutique thing, because I don't see how skis made in a garage are going to be > Atomic making them in a real ski factory, and who did the research to work out the right flex & profile why are they better or do you just have something nobody else has ?

[PB]

Ramer, now that's an old one.

Short cuts for the MFW.

[m2711c]

Icelantic sells 15k of stock per year? That's nutty.

Icelantic demo’s at Geto Kogen today.





the crowd was enthusiastic.

[Marshal Olson]

Olin skis were a division of giant Olin corp, hardly an indie. How about hexcel?

Holy crap! not sure how I missed that Olin fact. Petrochemicals and guns! NOT INDY, haha.

[FortySixMac]

Icelantic sells 15k of stock per year? That's nutty.

“Bombproof,” “Colorado-made” etc


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[FortySixMac]

I seriously doubt it.

They’re in every outlet store in Colorado (REI, Scheels, Epic, Evo, etc.)… I suppose it’s plausible


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[FortySixMac]

Duplicate — ignore




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[FortySixMac]

Anyone remember “Grace Skis” out of Colorado?


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[FortySixMac]

How about Skilogik, formerly out of Breck. I’m still skiing some tele mounted Raves I bought in 2012. Love ‘em. Beautiful top sheet graphics as well. Get comments all the time still. Don’t know why they went out of business.

Know a few people still riding SkiLogiks and swear by them


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[pfluffenmeister]

Anyone remember “Grace Skis” out of Colorado?


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I do, road up a lift at A Basin with a guy who was on some
Wood top; I think swallowtail.
I think he was with the company.

[half-fast]

Holy crap! not sure how I missed that Olin fact. Petrochemicals and guns! NOT INDY, haha.

The Olin ski factory was in Middletown NY

[natebob]

Atomic had a run building BD too

Ah, that's right. The Arc Angel was a good one from that era. Basically a wood cored Atomic Beta 922 or something like that.

[BC.]

Someone mentioned Sego out of Victor, ID in another thread…figured they belonged here.

Kid from home had been working at Sego…just heard today he is no longer at Sego/I believe they have shut down operations?

Ironically, he walked across the parking lot and picked up another gig at Franco Snowshapes…..

[Flexon Phil]

Holy crap! not sure how I missed that Olin fact. Petrochemicals and guns! NOT INDY, haha.

Olin college too.

[fat yeti]

Wubanger changed their name to WSD. WSD sold it to one of their athletes who had also helped with marketing and designing skis. He changed the name to Hinterland.



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[FortySixMac]

Someone mentioned Sego out of Victor, ID in another thread…figured they belonged here.

Kid from home had been working at Sego…just heard today he is no longer at Sego/I believe they have shut down operations?

Ironically, he walked across the parking lot and picked up another gig at Franco Snowshapes…..

Sego is still operational — checked in last week thinking the same thing but was told otherwise thankfully


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[Johnny H]

Know a few people still riding SkiLogiks and swear by them


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Good to hear I’m not alone.

[Alpinord]

Ha, me too


Out of Silverton if I remember correctly? I remember wanting some after seeing them in Couloir or telemark skier BITD.

Yes, ScottyBob’s were out of an old historical building on Greene St in Silverton then moved operations to China, 2006-7ish, iirc.

The TUA/Movement/BD connection is interesting. I’ve been liking my Conquests for touring. I wish I went a little shorter, however.

My Icelantic Keepers are beasts but super fun in deep snows.

Renoun’s are out of Burlington and make fun carvers and all-mountain skis. They’re fabricated over the border in Canukastan.


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[ejj]

I wondered if something was up at Sego--essentially everything on their website is sold out.

[FortySixMac]

I wondered if something was up at Sego--essentially everything on their website is sold out.

Sounds like they’re reconfiguring


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[TeleBeaver]

A couple other boutique brands:

Amalgam skis in Maine
Romp skis in Crested Butte
7even skis in SLC
Freeheel life telemark skis in SLC
Winterstick snowboards in Maine, I think they also make skis under the name west mountain ski co??
I don't know if anyone mentioned Voile, definitely a bigger boutique but their operation is pretty small overall.

[Lurch]

Another aspect of this I find interesting is it does not carry over into alpine bindings. As soon as the patient for tech binding expired that market blew up. But we still have the same alpine binding companies we had 50 years ago for the most part. There was Geez in the 80s and I think Line and Knee tried to make an entry and failed.

[m2711c]

more of strap company really…

[ticketchecker]

Lucid is another Maine brand, used to be one called Barn Board but I think they closed up shop


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[motogreg]

lots more actual engineering going on in bindings....lots more liability too